科索沃總統提議與鄰國塞爾維亞“調整”邊界
Kosovo's president on Thursday reiterated his idea of "a correction" of the border with Serbia, which is widely seen as essentially a territorial swap as part of a strategy to stabilize relations between both EU-aspirant nations.
Thaci was responding to an idea floated by some Serbian government officials that Kosovo, which has an ethnic Albanian majority but also a Serb minority, should be divided as a possible solution to settle a long-running dispute that is hindering both sides' ambitions to join the European Union.
Ostensibly dismissing the idea of a divided Kosovo along ethnic lines as unacceptable, Thaci instead proposed the concept of a "redefined" or "corrected" border with its Serbian neighbor to the north.
Thaci said: "We will work together with the international community to define the Kosovo-Serbia border." "I want to emphasize that Kosovo will not be divided; I want to forcefully stress it: Belgrade cannot bring to the table the division of Kosovo," he said.
Thaci is due to meet Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Brussels after the summer break under an EU-sponsored dialogue.
Experts and former diplomats have warned that rethinking borders in the Balkans would pose a risk to the stability in a region still struggling to come to terms with the wars of the 1990s, which tore apart Yugoslavia in Europe’s deadliest post-World War II conflict.科索沃總統塔奇星期四重申了與鄰國塞爾維亞“調整”邊界的想法。廣泛認爲這個想法有關置換領土，是穩定這兩個都希望加入歐盟的國家之間關係的努力。
科索沃和塞爾維亞的邊界問題長期以來阻礙這兩個國家加入歐盟。一些塞爾維亞政府官員提出阿爾巴尼亞族佔多數、塞爾維亞族佔少數的科索沃應該按照民族一分爲二。塔奇總統“調整”邊界的想法是對這種建議的迴應。
塔奇總統堅決拒絕了把國家一分爲二的說法，表示絕不接受。他隨後提出與他的北部鄰國“修定”或“調整”邊界的建議。
塔奇表示，願意在國際社會的幫助下與塞爾維亞對話，確定科索沃和塞爾維亞之間的邊界。他說：“我要強調，科索沃絕不會分割。我要堅決強調，貝爾格萊德不能把分割科索沃的想法帶到談判桌上。”
歐盟安排塔奇總統和塞爾維亞總統武契奇夏天過後在布魯塞爾會面。
一些專家和前外交官警告說，在巴爾幹地區考慮重新劃定邊界會給這一地區帶來不穩定的風險。巴爾幹地區1990年代的戰爭是第二次世界大戰以來歐洲最血腥的衝突，其影響人們還記憶猶新。衝突後南斯拉夫解體。
